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The collection includes a diary, 1950; correspondence, 1942–1981; and manuscripts of books (including "Prussian Bureaucracy and National Socialism"), lectures, and reports, 1947–1959. As a civilian employee of the U.S. Army from 1946 to 1952, Oppler was the principal architect of legal and judicial reforms in occupied Japan.
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This series contains documents generated in connection with Oppler's memoir, Legal Reform in Occupied Japan: A Participant Looks Back (Princeton University Press, 1976), including correspondence, reviews, and readers' notes. Of note are several typescript passages about life in Japan that were excised from the final version and a brief note from Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (October 23, 1974).